A first visit to British Columbia is a learning experience. You learn that BC’s marketing motto, Supernatural British Columbia, is an understatement when it comes to the province’s natural beauty. Gorgeous, awe-inspiring and vast, BC offers fierce extremes from storm-swept coasts to glaciered peaks and everything between.
I am proud and honored to welcome the new, consolidated Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center.
In my first year as a Director on the Marysville School Board I have often joked that I have had more to learn than the students. Now, having lived, learned and served through one highly-charged year of educational change, I would like to share with you some of what I have learned.
Elena is an elite college athlete. At 6 feet 5 inches she is beautiful and elegant, strong and poised. She is the top-scoring women’s basketball player in the nation, averaging 3 points per game more than the next closest player.
As your moms and dads know all too well, each generation thinks up ways to break loose and invents styles and behaviors to artfully annoy parents. I know because I’ve been there and done that. And then you try the hyper-private thing. A parent asks, “Where are you going?”
I wept in the car when I left the Marysville Food Bank. In the passenger seat, my friend didn’t interrupt, certain I had no immediate reason for unhappy tears. And she was right, of course. I was crying for joy.
With the last days of winter almost behind us, Marysville residents are already making plans for spring cleaning, property improvements and trips to their local home and garden stores.
Turn south off Highway 528 at the Nazarene Church. Drive south toward Soper Hill. Tune your car radio to any AM station and what do you hear? Static! Whole symphonies of static.
